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Delight in Disorder

Paint anything you like! That was the instruction given to the class after handing them each a cardboard, a colour palette and a paintbrush. About 40 minutes later and the entire room was chaotic – newspapers that were meant to protect the tables from the messy paint were all higgledy-piggledy on the floor, books were smeared with an assortment of colours, paintbrushes frantically thudded on the cardboard in a slapdash attempt to originate fresh, juvenile ideas, children had their faces and hands smeared with paint squirted it all over their clothes, and overall the room was given an overcoat of tender tones of yellow, red and green.

But the beauty of it all was that despite all the doodling, the mess and anarchy, pleasant yet subtle colours materialized; creative ideas of different strengths and different depictions were embodied in the simple and unadorned drawings. Beautiful portrayals of serene sandy beaches and palm trees, of houses and cars, or people and soothing waterfalls were on display. And one cannot but admire such work of art by the most creative individuals whose minds haven’t yet been tainted. And like Herrick such disorders “Do more bewitch me, than when art is too precise in every part”

Only one thing worried me though. Whilst other children were busy creating beautiful things, the Somali children created mayhem. One kid used black paper and glue and drew a pitch-black forest – That’s it! Nothing else. The symbolism of which i did not understand. What really worried me though was the kid who drew a CSI crime scene, with a deceased person’s body on the floor marked by a chalk outline. A splatter of red paint on the man marked his blood and it also spread to the walls behind him and the area beside which he lay. I wondered Why? but never really got to ask him.

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Art is a form of expression. You should be worried about the two mentioned children. Children unlike adults do not have seive to filter out what to say/do and what not to. When left alone most will write or draw what they see or feel. Its a window into their souls and its picture is disturbing you. Talk to the child without alarming them and find out. The CSI crime scene one might have come across an actually crime scene and reliving it. That he did it in detail shows he might be reliving it in real time sequences. Dark tones signify despair and maybe the other child see nothing but darkness and despair. Hope everything is not the doom and gloom I predicated. Let us know ya mudariis!

SD, lol@ ya mudarris, i will probably talk to him with subtlety, if time permits, but i was amazed! I think i understood the child who drew the dark forest, for he has temper problems at times and i assumed he was angry for some reason but did not manage talk to him to find out. what worries me is that the child who drew the crime scene, with blood and completely cordoned off, is a quiet boy of nature – doesn’t get into much trouble and often is in his own world. and that certainly is worrying, for he might be repressing a lot of stuff.

wasmaniac, they are about 9 years of age i’d say, and i think they quite have the capacity with which to understand the symbolism of their drawings at that age. don’t they?

fefe Lord knows, maybe its a reflection maybe it isn’t. But i somehow doubt that they have seen a crime scene yet, unless on TV as wasmaniac said, for it to be a reflection YET! i hope it’s just a worry of mine and that the drawing have no significance at all!